“As farmer and rural producer, I have always lent support to my children in their choices and wished them success. When the opportunity emerged for teenagers to be apprentices at the Growing-Up Right Institute, we encouraged the youngest of my three children to enroll in the course and he ended up lucky enough to attend the course for two years[…]”
“For some years we lived in Agudo and Rio Grande do Sul is in my heart, because it was the place where I stopped being a kid and matured. After the death of my stepfather and after concluding the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management course, my mother and I moved back to Florianópolis, where our family members live.[…]”
“My experience at the Growing Up Right Institute is innovative, keeping away from what used to my professional job as a Social Assistant. Spending time with the apprentices and the identification of their realities have been inspiring. […]”
“Although living in the interior of São Lourenço do Sul, I work as an IT support technician for a multinational company and every day I serve customers from Germany. My trajectory towards my professional international services is based on the formal study at school and university, and by holding in high esteem our countryside culture, especially the languages our ancestors spoke: Pomeranian and German. […]”
Fábio de Bastos Bastos @fabio_bastos9 Agro is everything “With the certainty that it is possible to prosper in agro, I am planning to build my life based on rural activities. I believe that the rural sector will continue to be […]
Educadora Vanessa Beise @vanessabeisee “To me, to be an educator at the Growing Up Right Institute is a dream come true. I am very proud of my trajectory in the Institute, because I was a rural apprentice in 2016 […]
“I have many reasons for being proud of my daughters: they are marvelous, polite, charismatic, devoted and focused on their studies. They are also responsible and have reached maturity, because they know what they want and where to go. For […]
“I am very proud of my daughter, because she is a very polite girl, focused on what she wants, mature, strong and with entrepreneurial spirit. To all this, the Growing Up Right Institute contributed a lot, making it possible for […]
“My husband and I had a dream of adopting a child, and we listened to hour heart and chose Renan. He is a charming boy, endowed with skills, and demonstrates to have a very kind heart. Waking up every morning […]
“The electric energy used on my farm is now generated by the solar panel system. The idea to implement the solar panel system came from the high costs of electrical energy. Therefore, in my project stemming from the Entrepreneurship and […]
“The idea of undertaking just one more business in the farm of my family seems sympathetic to me, as we already produce tobacco and my father has a student and cargo transportation company, including trucks that transport tobacco produced by the farmers of the region.[…]”
Thais Cavalheiro Neu
@Thai_cnz
“The idea of undertaking just one more business in the farm of my family seems sympathetic to me, as we already produce tobacco and my father has a student and cargo transportation company, including trucks that transport tobacco produced by the farmers of the region. Being an entrepreneur has always been on my mind, and we are doing plans for me to carry on with the transport company. Now, in the Entrepreneurship and Rural Management course, which I attended as an apprentice of the Growing-Up Right Institute, I devised a project to produce free-range chickens, which could be an option for a new family enterprise. According to the plan, the first steps would consist in the construction of the poultry farm and, in the sequence, we would start rearing our free-range chickens. We are still improving the idea and I intend, in the future, put the project into practice.
For rural youth, I perceive there are plenty of business opportunities, which include exploring rural tourism. Investments in agroindustries and bee farming are just other diverse opportunities. I believe that, for rural youth to be successful in the rural areas, good administration of the activities and great interest in their work are of fundamental importance. These ideas coincide with what we learned in the course provided by the Growing-Up Right Institute, which I attended in 2023 and where I had a unique learning experience. Besides making new friends, I made strides in terms of communication, which, without any doubt, was very significant to me”.
Thais Cavalheiro Neu, 15 was a young apprentice in the Rural Professional Learning Program held by the Growing-Up Right Institute, in Agudo (RS).